Eastern Partnership Youth Regional Unit русская версия EPYRU Newsletter 7 PROGRAMME FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION Kyiv, April 2015 Minister Ihor Zhdanov addresses EPYRU Kyiv Workshop From l. to r.: Ms. Tetyana Shulha (Sector Manager, Youth, Delegation of the EU to Ukraine); Ms. Iryna Belyaeva (Head of Department of Youth Policy , Ministry of Youth and Sport , Ukraine), Mr. Ihor Zhdanov, (Minister of Yiuth and Sport, Ukraine); Mr. Hans-Jürgen Maeth (Team Leader, EPYRU) The EPYRU's successful Ukrainian National Workshop in Kyiv on 31 March - 1 April was honoured by a visit and address from the Ukrainian Minister of Youth and Sport, Mr. Ihor Zhdanov. The workshop, which focused on the development of a youth centres network in Ukraine, included 70 delegates from Kyiv and the regions of Ukraine. The workshop received presentations from, among others, Mr. Olaf Koendgen, Executive Director of the European Youth Centre Budapest, Mr. Arturas Malinauskas, a leading Lithuanian youth work expert, heads of regional youth centres in Kyiv, Poltava and Tetiiv, and experts of the EPYRU. Delegates were able to debate and discuss together steps to develop Ukrainian youth centres. More details of the workshop are available on the project website, together with downloadable copies of workshop presentations. EPYRU’s free distance learning modules offer unique opportunity. Nearly 300 people have enrolled to date for EPYRU’s free on-line distance learning modules, on the topics of evidence-based youth policy, cross-sectoral cooperation and inclusive policy participation. The modules (which are in Russian) are still available for registration — check them out here, and watch the introductory video. www.eapyouth.eu 2nd Eastern Partnership Youth Forum, Riga 9 – 12 February The EPYRU was delighted to meet with old and new contacts at the Second Eastern Partnership Youth Forum in Riga in February. The theme of the conference, youth employment, is a key area for the EPYRU project in the context of its objective to ‘foster a cross-sectoral approach responding to the needs of youth’. In response to this, EPYRU experts Evgeniia Petrivska and David Conway arranged within the learning space facility of the Forum presentations of the project’s online learning modules and internet information facilities. They also led an Open Space Workshop on the theme of enhancing a regional strategy for youth in the Eastern Partnership, with recommendations including a new Eastern Partnership Youth Evgeniia Petrivska introduces the EPYRU on-line learning module at Window in the context of Erasmus+. See the photo gallery on the EPYRU website for the Riga Forum learning space. more. “Youth On-Line” Seminar, Kyiv 23-24 February The EPYRU “Youth Online Seminar” brought together 12 participants; from each of the six EaP countries there was one representative from the youthrelated Ministry and one representative of the country’s National Youth Council. It graduated participants through the three modules of the EPYRU, and informed them of new e-technology techniques and initiatives for education, labour and youth policy, including webinars, LessonCast, and crowd funding. The seminar empowered participants to spread awareness of youth issues throughout the Eastern Partnership to key actors and audiences. Visit our website for downloads of the presentations. EPYRU Regional Seminars Three regional seminars are planed to be organised by EPYRU in the coming months bringing together representatives from all six Eastern Partnership countries to cooperate on key youth policy issues. The first two seminars, on youth participation, are scheduled for 22-24 April in Baku, Azerbaijan, and 25-27 May in Stepanavan, Armenia. The third, on cross-sectoral cooperation, is proposed for 3-4 June in Chisinau, Moldova, to be followed by a meeting of the EPYRU Steering Committee. Further details will appear on the EPYRU website. [email protected] http://www.eapyouth.eu This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Commission; its contents are the sole responsibility of the consortium implementing the EU-funded project ‘Eastern Partnership Youth Regional Unit’, GDSI Ltd. (Ireland) and its partners. If you do not wish to continue to receive this newsletter, please send an e-mail to [email protected] www.eapyouth.eu Page 2 of 2